re: Should Trump address the Nation on the oil and gas price crisis...

I do not need to defend POTUS Trump. Did you hear about Greenland?

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At what point did we become this fanatical about politics? When did political affiliation become such a huge part of people’s identity that politics basically turned into sports fandom? Everything is “my team” vs. “your team.” Every bad outcome has to be explained away when your side caused it, every criticism is treated like an attack, and admitting your guy screwed something up somehow feels like admitting you were wrong. There’s almost no room for nuance anymore. You can support someone and still admit they screwed something up. You can oppose someone and still acknowledge when they got something right. Neither requires you to abandon your principles. I used to believe conservatives were generally better about this and more willing to call out their own side when they thought it was wrong. The Trump era has certainly changed my perception of that. There’s a segment of his most devoted supporters who seemingly cannot tolerate any criticism of him whatsoever. Every criticism has to be defended, rationalized, or immediately answered with “but Biden” or “but Democrats.” What makes it even more frustrating is the complete lack of self-awareness about their own blind idolization of the guy. They’ll accuse everyone else of being brainwashed while treating virtually any criticism of Trump as a personal attack. You can agree with 90% of what he does and criticize the other 10%, and suddenly you’re the enemy. Gee, I wonder where they get that inability to handle criticism from. That’s the part I’ll never understand, wrapping your identity so tightly around a politician or political party that you lose the ability to look at individual issues with any nuance. You shouldn’t have to defend everything someone does just because you voted for them. Again…it’s pathetic

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Can’t really add anything to that. Couldn’t agree more.

If a, would a, could a ......

Are you actually of the opinion that this unnecessary increase in oil prices only affects you when you’re at the pump?? Because if so, you might want to consider what $7 a gallon diesel will do for prices across the board.

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Are you actually of the opinion that this unnecessary increase in oil prices only affects you when you’re at the pump?? Because if so, you might want to consider what $7 a gallon diesel will do for prices across the board.

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Are you actually aware of what a real crises is? I said it is painful and unwanted, but will it lead to famine and starvation?

Trump just needs to admit he was wrong and end the war with Iran.

Advise Israel they stand on their own now and make the following deal with all Middle Eastern nations:

- Relocation of all Muslims in the U.S., Canada and Europe back to their Middle Eastern or African country of origin.
- Agreement that Middle Eastern countries will not let their populations leave the Middle East.
- Agreement that the U.S., Canada and Europe will no longer support Israel and will withdraw all forces from the region.

It will also be important for all Middle Eastern nations to agree to the following:

- Any attack on any American, Canadian and European outside of the Middle East will be met with severe consequences.
- If any American, Canadian or European is killed by a Muslim who left the Middle East, the Middle East town where they came from is nuked.
- If any Middle Eastern country violates these rules and attacks the U.S., Canada or Europe, that country is nuked out of existence. That country is turned into a parking lot and that culture becomes a dead culture, thrown to the dustpan of history.

Make a solid agreement. You never leave the Middle East, you take all your Muslims back and you don't screw with us, we leave you to your own devices in the Middle East. We leave the region and let you do what you want. Fight your own wars, live in your own third world sh*tholes.

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Are you actually aware of what a real crises is? I said it is painful and unwanted, but will it lead to famine and starvation?

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And what are we getting out of it? Nothing. Trump, END THE WAR!

People are willing to make sacrifices if there's an end goal. If it truly means the long term survival of the country. There's no end goal here. The U.S. was not under threat.

We are fighting Israel's war for them

Unless the U.S. or U.S. military are attacked directly, there is no reason for us to be in the Middle East.

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Iran was like 2 maybe 3 days away from nuclear capability….we had to step in

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So then what was June 2025 all about? I thought we wiped out their nuclear capability then?

What happens when the U.S. ends the war? How long before Iran is "2 or 3 days away" again and all of this was for nothing? Even if Iran got a nuke, who's to say they would use it against the U.S.? Israel, sure, but just like North Korea they wouldn't have the delivery mechanism.

Plus Iran knows that they launch one nuke against the U.S., they'll have hundreds of nukes immediately heading right back to Iran.

I'm sorry but I just flat out don't believe this. This is the same "weapons of mass destruction" BS we were fed for the Iraq war.

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I for one cannot understand why it just keeps getting worse with no explanation from the Whitehouse....

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There's been explanations. Like every other failure of this administration, the standing explanation is "It’s Biden's fault or it’s Obama's fault "

I'm just waiting for Trump to continue his renaming spree and change the name of the San Andreas Fault to Joe Biden's Fault.

So do you not believe they were ever a threat, period, in terms of becoming “nuclear armed?”

Or do you believe it simply didn’t need to be addressed at this stage in history, under this administration?

Help me understand the outright dismissal of a nuclear-armed Iran.